Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to introduce an alternative means of registration and identification for disabled car users to eliminate the problem of blue badge disabled parking discs being taken from cars; and if he will make a statement.

The Department of Transport has no plans to make changes to the legislation that governs the Blue Badge Scheme. The Department works closely with local authorities to improve the consistency of local enforcement to tackle fraud and misuse of the Blue Badge Scheme, including the use of powers to tackle abuse provided in the Disabled Persons Parking Badges Act 2013, such as the power to retain and cancel badges found to be stolen.